I've got Gnome 3 running in failsafe - because my nvidia 5200 card uses the 173 driver which won't run Gnome shell - which is fine. However several programs won't start, chief amongst these is Sulfur.trying to run it from the Applications menu brings up the authorization screen, but when I put my password in it fails to load. I've tried to load it from a terminal and I get this message : 'traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/entropy/sulfur/sulfur_client.py", line 18, in <module> import gtkImportError: No module named gtk.I assume that gtk has not updated correctly. Can anyone help me with this?

Also I can not edit the menu, the entry is there when I right click 'Applications' but it does nothing.

Hi JoostI've done that . I've also tried Thunar, but that takes ove 20 secs as well. Also I can't get Evolution ar Brasero to load - both come back with 'segmentaion error' if I try to load them in a terminal.I don't have a clue what is going on, I may have to leave it for a week as I'm going away, then try an update and see if its bug. However, I'm inclined to think that its my kit - pentium 4, 1 meg of ram and Nvida 5200 vidio card- that's the problem.

gosport_gaz wrote:Hi JoostI've done that . I've also tried Thunar, but that takes ove 20 secs as well. Also I can't get Evolution ar Brasero to load - both come back with 'segmentaion error' if I try to load them in a terminal.I don't have a clue what is going on, I may have to leave it for a week as I'm going away, then try an update and see if its bug. However, I'm inclined to think that its my kit - pentium 4, 1 meg of ram and Nvida 5200 vidio card- that's the problem.

I have a comp with the same specs (except for a 6600GT) with Sabayon Xfce installed and after upgrading some gnome-packages to match the gnome-3 environment everything took a long time to load. I ended up rolling back the gnome stuff and emerging the 2.0 versions I got several errors concerning dbus but I didn't try to investigate further since I assumed it was just some gnome3/gtk3+xfce shenanigans.

I've downloaded LXDE and Xfce, They seem OK except that I get a message: "Could not look up internet address for host-computer-name.This will prevent Xfce from operating correctly.It may be possible to correct the problem by addinghost-computer-name to the file /etc/hosts on your system.When I log into xfce. I've looked at /etc and there was no /host file, just /host.example so I copied this to /etc/host but I'm not sure where to add my computer name. Other than that both desktops work well.